This Google woman's voice is incredibly soothing, right?

[FluxWaveZ]

When I come across a word whose definition I'm unsure of, I'll usually just type it in Google. Sometimes I listen to the pronunciation, and I've found that there's this one person who has a remarkably soothing voice. Some examples (just press the first visible speaker icon):

• Halcyon
• Idyllic
• Anamnesis
• Blissful
• Seduce

It's not just me, right? I'm not just being really weird and making an inevitably locked thread, right?? I've had this on my mind for some time now, and it always gives me warm feelings when I hear this voice again.

Is she, like, a known voice actor or something?

Edit: Video:

 

[SoH]

thats how they getcha

 

[scottbeowulf]

I'm gonna guess this isn't a real person. It does sound nice though.

 

[Kingpin Rogers]

Only Idyllic has a womans voice.

 

[capitalCORN]

They get you when you want to marry them.

 

[Dongs Macabre]

fetish thread

 

[scottbeowulf]

They get you when you want to marry them.

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[talkingood]

My wife calls this the "kindergarten teacher porn star voice" and does a hilarious impression of people who talk like this. To each their own!

 

[Aloysius]

I want to replace my google assistants voice with this one. You are right. It sounds very nice

 

[julia crawford]

https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1...hUKEwipnJ2zprPlAhVs8-AKHWOJDZ0Q4dUDCAo&uact=5

 

[mbpm]

So this is what people go to ASMR for

 

[capitalCORN]

Alexa and Siri are going to be a problem, aren't they?

 

[FluxWaveZ]

Only Idyllic has a womans voice. It just seems like a normal voice to me.

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Wait a sec, are you saying the other voices sound like a man's?

 

[SoH]

Only Idyllic has a womans voice. It just seems like a normal voice to me.

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It might be worth a two second pause of consideration as to why you categorized as woman and normal. I know what you meant, it just sounds weirder than I think you intended.

 

[UltraMagnanimous]

I get a bunch of male voices also. Might be geographically related? Am in UK.

 

[scottbeowulf]

They were all female for me but then I typed in "poop" cuz I'm an adult child. And a man's voice said it. Weird.

 

[Deleted member 2761]

Sounds like a teenager putting on the airs of an adult to me, but whatever floats your boat man.

 

[EVIL]

Wait a sec, are you saying the other voices sound like a man's?

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yep same for me, I am in Europe, maybe they use more british pronounciations on google

 

[hey it's that dog]

this is a nice voice but it reminds me of... anime

 

[mbpm]

They were all female for me but then I typed in "poop" cuz I'm an adult child. And a man's voice said it. Weird.

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Only men can say poop.

 

[FluxWaveZ]

My wife calls this the "kindergarten teacher porn star voice" and does a hilarious impression of people who talk like this. To each their own!

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Sounds like a teenager putting on the airs of an adult to me, but whatever floats your boat man.

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Hey, honestly, either way, I can't get over how serene sounding it is.

yep same for me, I am in Europe, maybe they use more british pronounciations on google

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Oh weird, I guess it might change depending on the region.

Here, made a video of it:

 

[UltraMagnanimous]

I can type in the word and then 'pronunciation' and I get a different UI which allows me to select American or British pronunciation. And then it;s in a computer synthesized voice rather than the seemingly recorded version if you just search for the word.

 

[Deleted member 20892]

My wife calls this the "kindergarten teacher porn star voice" and does a hilarious impression of people who talk like this. To each their own!

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Lmao

 

[EVIL]

Hey, honestly, either way, I can't get over how serene sounding it is.

Oh weird, I guess it might change depending on the region.

Here, made a video of it:

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oh nice! very generous, since I was getting curious!
she sounds far nicer than the European versions

 

[spam musubi]

1- you're being weird
2- this is a synthetic voice

 

[wenis]

she sounds like one of my 10,000 year old dragons.

 

[FluxWaveZ]

1- you're being weird
2- this is a synthetic voice

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Is it really? It sounds pretty organic. If it is, I didn't know that synthetic voices had gotten to that point.

 

[spam musubi]

Is it really? It sounds pretty organic. If it is, I didn't know that synthetic voices had gotten to that point.

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You can demo it here: (try voice name F)

https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/

Note that making a single word sound natural is much easier than making a sentence.

 

[Nida]

I would prefer that to what my screen reader currently uses. Think it's just Microsoft Female #1.

 

[FluxWaveZ]

You can demo it here: (try voice name F)

https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/

Note that making a single word sound natural is much easier than making a sentence.

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Huh, TIL. That's pretty good. This is the kind of tech they're also using in Watch Dogs: Legion. Makes sense.

 

[Deleted member 17210]

It sounds more dystopian sci-fi than soothing to me due to decades of movies.

 

[sersteven]

The closer we get to Alexa/Siri/Google Home having anime waifu voices, the closer we are to Armageddon

 

[Maynerd]

My wife calls this the "kindergarten teacher porn star voice" and does a hilarious impression of people who talk like this. To each their own!

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Is your wife available for phone calls late at night a few times a week? She would be compensated. Asking for a friend.

 

[Deleted member 48897]

I get the same voice when I type in "fetishize" but I get a different woman's voice when I type in "uncomfortable"

 

[Tabby]

I'm with you OP. This voice is incredibly soothing.